Sonnet On Receiving A Letter Informing Me Of The Birth Of A Son

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Title:     Sonnet On Receiving A Letter Informing Me Of The Birth Of A Son
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

When they did greet me father, sudden awe
Weigh'd down my spirit: I retired and knelt
Seeking the throne of grace, but inly felt
No heavenly visitation upwards draw
My feeble mind, nor cheering ray impart.
Ah me! before the Eternal Sire I brought
Th' unquiet silence of confuséd thought
And shapeless feelings: my o'erwhelméd heart
Trembled, and vacant tears stream'd down my face.
And now once more, O Lord! to thee I bend,
Lover of souls! and groan for future grace,
That ere my babe youth's perilous maze have trod,
Thy overshadowing Spirit may descend,
And he be born again, a child of God.

Sept. 20, 1796.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Sonnet On Receiving A Letter Informing Me Of The Birth Of A Son

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